Combustion Optimization Based on Computational Intelligence (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789811078736)

Professor Hao Zhou received his Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University in 2004. He is currently Deputy Director of State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization at Zhejiang University and Director of the Zhejiang University - University of Leeds joint research center for sustainable energy. His research interests include combustion optimization, low pollutant combustion technology for utility boilers, and neural network and support vector machine modeling methods. He has published over 20 academic papers and filed 7 patents in the areas of combustion pollutants control and combustion optimization since 2000.

Professor Kefa Cen is a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He received his Ph.D. degree from Moscow Industrial Technology University and has expertise in clean coal combustion and gasification, poly-generation and comprehensive utilization of energy resources, as well as biomass gasification and bio-oil. He is currently Director of the Institute for Thermal Power Engineering at Zhejiang University and Chairman of the Chinese Society of Power Engineering's International Cooperation & Exchange Committee. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Zhejiang University (Engineering Science) and the Journal of Renewable Energy. He has published over 800 academic papers and 15 books.